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and, to my notion, better than any other process I have ever seen ; and it is quite 

 easily handled, My coils are 8 feet long, 6 pipes in a coil, which lie in a box 14 

 feet long, leaving 3 feet at each end ; a scum board at each end, set sloping, and 

 one foot wide, into which the scum is carried. After turning in the cold juice, 

 you must keep your steam and juce regulated. It requires but a short time to 

 convert it into syrup. It requires nearly an inch stream to supply the evaporator. 

 The coils are inch steam pipes, lying flat on the bottom. My box is of wood, with 

 three strips horizontally between the pipes, so there is no heavy body of juice under 

 the pipes not entirely covered. In the evaporation and cleansing, the scum is con- 

 tinually going each way, and never reboils, and never comes back. The scum 

 boards are continually passsing it away ; they are arranged with one end station- 

 ary at the box, and the other end swings with wire rope, one swinging to the right 

 and the other to the left. 



A Member. What kind of a mill have you ? 



Mr. Saterthwait. My mill is of the Star pattern. We grind until noon and 

 get our tanks full, and from 1 to 5 or 6 o'clock in the evening make from 150 to 

 160 gallons per day. 

 ' The election of officers resulted as follows : 



President — Dr. A. Furnas, Danville. 



Vice-president — E. W. Deming, West Point. 



Secretary — W. L. Anderson, Ladoga. 



Treasurer— W. F. Lietzman, Center Valley. 



ADDRESS BY PROF. WILEY. 



Prof. H. W. Wiley, U. S. Chemist, Washington, D. C, being jjresent, was in- 

 vited to entertain the convention with a few remarks, and responded in substance 

 as follows : 



Mk. President : I do not know what theme would be most agreeable to the 

 convention, and I can speak but briefly. Responding to the invitation of the State 

 Board of Agriculture of California, for the purpose of investigating the sugar beet 

 in that locality, I visited the Pacific coast. I received an invitation from Oregon 

 and Washington Territory to also visit those countries ; but unfortunately my en- 

 gagements in Louisiana were so near at hand, I could not look over more than 

 one State— that of California, which is almost an empire of itself. My attention 

 was directed into two channels — one of climate, rainfall, and temperature, and 

 the soil, and the culture of the beet. The interests of the sugar men are together 

 everywhere, and there should not be any rivalry and jealousy against those who 

 are engaged with the sugar cane of the South and those who raise the Northern 

 cane and sugar beet. That which will promote one will also promote the other. 

 It was not necessary to go to California to investigate the climate and rainfall ; 

 the explanations from the United States signal office extended back for fourteen 

 years, and from this I could compute the average rainfall and distribution of it, as 

 well as the maximum and minimum, without visiting that locality. My attention 

 was chiefly directed to the adaptation of the soil for the production of the sugar beet. 

 The beet is a plant which will grow over a very wide area of territory, but yields 

 sugar under certain climatic conditions, and this under certain temperature. It 



